County Procurement Policy requires County departments to solicit quotes first from certified EMERGING Businesses and if there are none,
from certified SMALL Businesses and if there are none, from LOCAL Businesses.

PLEASE NOTE:
ALL BUSINESSES IN THE SLEB SUPPLIER QUERY SYSTEM DATABASE ARE LOCAL (i.e. LOCATED WITHIN ALAMEDA COUNTY) BUT ARE NOT NECESSARILY CERTIFIED.

Certified businesses are identified as either Certified EMERGING Business or
Certified SMALL Business in the Certification Type column of the database table (below).

Certified SMALL and EMERGING businesses are also indentified by a Certification number in the Certification Status column of the database.

The Certification Type column identifies businesses that are NOT certified as Non-Certified LOCAL Business.

All businesses in the database other than those identified as SMALL or EMERGING are LOCAL and not certified.